Rolled tea or tea pearls

[Msdclark]

I realize this means I'm not a tea purist, but it makes me happy so in the end this is what matters, right?
I am seeking an online vendor that carries quite a few different options of rolled tea leaves or pearls. I either use a glass infuser mug with lid, glass infuser pot or a glass mug to drink my tea and I really enjoy watching the leaves unfurl. I'm not into the "blooming" flower teas.
I enjoy black teas, green teas, oolong, white teas and Pu-erh in this order. I don't typically go for herbal tea as I prefer the caffeine. I haven't enjoyed a Rooibos yet.
I'm finding most of the pearls tend to be jasmine style which I love but I'd like some other options.

[debunix]

There are a lot of teas that are tightly rolled and are very cool to watch unfurl, especially some greener style oolongs. It's a very limiting constraint on your tea drinking, though, because most roasted oolongs are not rolled, nor are puerhs, nor most greens that are not jasmine-scented.

I'm referring here to rolling as distinct from pearls: I wonder if the pearls are strictly a modern invention, or some traditional way of making it easy to separate the tea pearls from the jasmine petals during the scenting process?

Green oolongs can be lovely to watch unfurl, going from tight curls



to beautiful leaves

[BW85]

Definitely look into some Taiwanese oolongs.

[jayinhk]

Biluochun! Rolled green that isn't jasmine, but is very aromatic. The good stuff gets expensive, but it's good stuff.

Apparently they even roll black tea (!) in Yunnan and call it Biluochun...not suggesting you buy from Teaspring, I just found this interesting. I live in Hong Kong and buy tea from China or locally...buying from the US would be insane on my part. lol

http://www.teaspring.com/Bi-Luo-Chun-Hong-Cha.asp

I was given some Biluochun in China as a freebie a few weeks ago...I think I'll drink some later today.